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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on what he expected from the first match: "I expected the intensity, the atmosphere as well was great from England and Serbian fans. The first game is one of the most important and to see that out was the best out we have."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on himself and Phil Foden being from Stockport: "Yesterday we were taking about the local teams that we both used to play for, with Cole Palmer too. We were talking about our grassroot sides. It's nice to have someone near to where I live here. "

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on Phil Foden: "On the ball, his first touch is crazy, he's so technical."

On watching forwards growing up: "Growing up a Manchester United fan, [I loved watching] Rooney, It's not always strikers I used to watch Ronaldinho on YouTube too."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on Declan Rice: "Dec is such a good player, reliable and dominate in the midfield so When I did get to play with him it's always a joy to have someone so strong with the ball next to you."

"Everyone knows he's worth every penny, he's such a good player. He's proved it in the Premier League and internationally.

"[Playing alongside Rice], it frees me up a lot and allows me to go forward and attack and trust that he's there. It's a dream."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on being fearless: "Growing up, I always looked up to attackers. I was a striker for most of my academy days. I love being on the ball, maybe playing futsal means I'm comfortable taking it in tight areas and I like to turn and go forward with it."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on Rasmus Hojlund: "I've not spoke to him recently, but I'll leave that for after the game. I'm focused on here and maybe after the game I'll speak to him.

"Maybe, I don't know, I haven't played against him before."

"He's a really good friend, it's good to have them relationships on the pitch and off the pitch."

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Kobbie Mainoo was asked if he heard any racist chanting towards England during Sunday's match against Serbia or had any views on Uefa opening an investigation into the alleged incident: "I've not. I only heard about it on the way over but as it is an ongoing investigation I will leave it to Uefa to decide whatever is going on with it."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on whether he considered playing for Ghana over England: "I'm proud of my Ghanaian heritage but it has always been a dream to play for England. I'm happy to be here. I considered it, but I want to play for England."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on club manager Erik Ten Hag: "Happy to be building with him, got two trophies hopefully there's more to come. Peace of mind to know what manager we have when we return.

"I'm so grateful for him, he put so much trust in me to play in the team. I can't thank him enough."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on whether he will follow some England players in drinking pickle juice to help cramp: "I've not tried pickle juice. I didn't know that was cramp fix. I'm not doing it!"

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on a breakthrough season: "[My injury] was a tough one to take. It took me a day or two to sink in. From then it was focusing on getting back and trusting the process and medical team so that I would be in better shape and position to be back"

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on Jude Bellingham: "Yeah definitely [on whether Bellingham could the Ballon d'Or]. I mean everyone knows how great of a player he is. We see it everyday in training here. He's such a nice guy as well. He's demanding. He has high standards that he sets. To play with him is great. it's rightly so he's a contender for the Ballon d'Or"

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More from Kobbie Mainoo on potentially playing against club team-mates Christian Eriksen and Rasmus Hojlund: "They're both great team-mates to me, Rasmus is young like me so I am always around him. I am trying to learn and pick up from Christian. If I'm to play on Thursday I'll have to put that to the side compete against him and hopefully get the win."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo on being ready to play: "I'm ready to play, whether that's off the bench or starting. Obviously, there's other great midfielders in the squad in the Premier League or abroad like Jude [Bellingham]. I'm trying to train hard and be ready when I'm called upon"

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All good things come to those who wait - England midfielder Kobbie Mainoo is in the media room and enjoying what has now become a traditional pre-news conference warm-up on the darts board.

The pleasantries are over, first question is incoming - what will it be like to play against Manchester United team-mates Christian Eriksen and Rasmus Hojlund when the Three Lions take on Denmark on Thursday.

He said he is good friends with Hojlund and looks up to Eriksen as a senior member of the midfield, but is ready to put those feelings to one side.

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Gareth Southgate started Liverpool full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold alongside Declan Rice in the centre of England's midfield against Serbia, but brought on Chelsea's Conor Gallagher and Manchester United teenager Kobbie Mainoo to add some extra energy in the closing stages.

Gallagher, 24, arguably remains ahead of Mainoo, 19, in the Three Lions pecking order, but the England manager said when confirming his selection for the Euros that young players such as Mainoo and Crystal Palace's Adam Wharton, 20, add an extra element to his squad.

"There are obviously a couple of good technical players who have come through,” Southgate explained. “Kobbie is one. Adam is one.

“So, there is a bigger pool, but one of those boys was playing in the Championship earlier this year and the other was finding his feet for Manchester United.

"So, they are not [Toni] Kroos and [Luka] Modric in terms of experience, but the team will have a different feel and we think that’s the best route to go.”

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Emma Sanders
BBC Sport in Frankfurt

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Thought I'd give you all a little insight into what it's like for a written reporter on match day here at Euro 2024.

First we pick up our accreditation and head towards the media centre. Pictured above is the view from the operations tunnel in Stuttgart, which emergency services vehicles, for example, would use.

That is also a picture of the press conference room where managers will speak to media the day before the game and immediately at full-time.

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This is the view from my seat at the Frankfurt Arena last night where Belgium lost to Slovakia in their opening match.

It's a good view but if you want the best seats, you need to book your spot nice and early through Uefa before they all go! I did well here.

At full-time, you can choose to go to the press conference or try your hand in the mixed zone, which I refer to as the "media zoo".

It's, as you can see below, a free-fall. You have to squeeze to the front and then basically stand around getting ignored for 30 minutes.

Occasionally a player will stop. You plead desperately for them to speak in English and if you're REALLY lucky, you can get a few quotes. Last night, Kevin de Bruyne wasn't interested. So I failed.

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• This will be just the second meeting between these two sides at a major tournament – Scotland won 1-0 in the group stages at Euro 1996, thanks to a goal from Ally McCoist.
• That victory marks Scotland’s only win in their last five matches against Switzerland in all competitions (D2 L2).
• This pair last met in March 2006 when the Swiss won 3-1 in a friendly at Hampden Park as goals from Tranquillo Barnetta, Daniel Gygax and Ricardo Cabanas did the damage.
• Kenny Miller scored the only goal for Scotland on that day, and Clarke will be praying a repeat does not occur here – otherwise his side could be heading for an early exit in Germany.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Scotland fan Craig Ferguson speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live on Scotland's meeting with Switzerland on Wednesday: "We didn't cover ourselves in glory whatsoever in that game and I think that's putting it lightly. But I think it was the reality check that we needed, we need our players to come out fighting, I think we now have something to prove.

"Everyone is sort of looking at Scotland like that's us down and out, but for sure the fans here certainly don't think that, everyone is still in high spirits.

"There's thousands of Scotland fans in Cologne already and hopefully if the team puts in a performance that is anything like the fans are here, I'll be confident."

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Scotland fan Craig Ferguson, who walked all the way from Hampden Park to Munich, spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about his challenge: "Honestly, the most tempting [time to give up] was when the rain was pelting down and I had a random Belgian person stopping and going 'do you want a lift' and I'm like, 'I would love to say yes but I can't.' Times like that and honestly, all the wee sort of moments where it looked like it wasn't going to plan. I wouldn't go back and change a single one of them because who likes a story where everything went alright anyway?

On the highs and lows: "I had lots of different highlights but I think actually coming into that finish line just preceded everything else, honest to god. I will never forget that moment, I was just expecting to see some friends, a little bit of family there but what I was welcomed to was beyond my expectations in the best way possible.

"Some of the lows were things such as weather and the signal dropping out. One night, I got lost in a forest where it was pitch black, but we made it here in one piece so I can't really complain."